Current status: The HD is still dead. I'm on the old ass pos pc now. But since I rehooked the old harddrive to it, Windows XP is saying I need to reactive windows because of hardware changes. WTH. I don't have a windows product key for it, and it's only giving me 3 days (since yesterday) to get it. What business is it of fucking windows what I put in my comp. This thing has been nothing but trouble and a complete waste of money.

Current status: The HD is still dead. I'm on the old ass pos pc now. But since I rehooked the old harddrive to it, Windows XP is saying I need to reactive windows because of hardware changes. WTH. I don't have a windows product key for it, and it's only giving me 3 days (since yesterday) to get it. What business is it of fucking windows what I put in my comp. This thing has been nothing but trouble and a complete waste of money.

product key "should" be on a microsoft sticker on the puter.
it had xp on that puter when you got it right?
if so, find the number on the tag and use it, should still be fine.

Current status: The HD is still dead. I'm on the old ass pos pc now. But since I rehooked the old harddrive to it, Windows XP is saying I need to reactive windows because of hardware changes. WTH. I don't have a windows product key for it, and it's only giving me 3 days (since yesterday) to get it. What business is it of fucking windows what I put in my comp. This thing has been nothing but trouble and a complete waste of money.

Don't forget that if the dead hard drive was created on windows 7 then it won't be readable on windows xp, whether it's working or not.